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Decorative drawing: an ornate nineteenth-century American house. Not a photograph of this place.

Tremaine-Gallagher Residence

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3001 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 44118
  • When was it listed? 1973-10-30
  • Category. building
  • Township. Cleveland Heights city
  • National Register reference number. 73001419 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 4,519 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 4,519 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tremaine-Gallagher Residence between 1850 and 1975: 4,079 Animalia, 219 Fungi, 140 Plantae, 74 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 1895Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 18951894F. WebsterEuclid
Specimen of Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.1894Seymour, Arthur BlissCleveland, O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.Cleveland.
Boraginaceae1850not recordedCleveland.
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1850Illegible collector nameCleveland.
A photograph of the species Catillaria tricolor, not of this specimenCatillaria tricolor (Lam.) Th.Fr.1854G. DixonCleveland, Bousdale Hill
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1854Robert KennicottCleveland
A photograph of the species Abrothallus parmeliarum, not of this specimenAbrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 18691860Mudd Wm.Cleveland
A photograph of the species Thryothorus ludovicianus, not of this specimenThryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790)1860not recordedCleveland
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981871Collector(s): unknownCleveland
A photograph of the species Timmia megapolitana, not of this specimenTimmia megapolitana Hedw.1871E. N. Claassen
A photograph of the species Amaranthus blitoides, not of this specimenAmaranthus blitoides S.Watson1874C. E. O. KuntzeCleveland

All 4,519 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland Heights, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report between 1996 and 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCleveland Heights-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cuyahoga County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

1,484 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Description of the property

and advanced for 1912. The dining room walls have murals in the unknown date. runs and an open well with a domed skylight. At the landing there is a large Palladian window. There are wooden parquet floors on the * RECEIVED Ruins The kitchen and pantry were remodeled in 1959. pavilions connected by a loggia 35 feet long with three arched openings This is a residence of masonry, concrete and steel construction in Fair OCT5.1973 the Second Renaissance Revival style.Itis approx.12l'(south PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) * 20th Century - Pre-Columbian| - Engineering - Religion/Phi- °losophy - Science - Sculpture X Social/Human- - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

tasteful treatment of its historical sources, taken from the High subsequently owned by Michael Gallagher (1917-1957), Mrs. William C. Woods, daughter of Gallagher (1957-1959), William Barringer manager of the M.A. Hanna Company, founder. of the American important functions connected with the social, economic and polit- ical activities of the city- 1912-1914 judgment. Military Conservation Architecture Aboriginal Communications Education Agriculture Literature Music Prehistoric SIGNIFICANCE Political Commerce Invention itarian The original owner was Henry A.Tremaine.The house was built ruling class in early twentieth century American society.

as an outstanding example of early twentieth century eclectic archi- Industry while awaiting the completion of the main house.The house was but without creativity." The Tremaine-Gallagher house refutes this Italian Renaissance. Its landscaping is also notable.In addition, Landscape The Tremaine-Gallagher house has been recognized by the H.A.B.S. tecture.It stands out among a large number of luxurious eclectic Urban Planning Cleveland architect to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris Federation of Railroads, and a representative of the Van Sweringen whose works are extant and include a number of still notable (1959-1960), and the present owners. The house cost approximately Company.

During his lifetime the house was the center of many The architect was Frederick W.Striebinger (l870-194l),the first it is representative of the style of living of what amounted to the $350,000 in 1917,including the furnishings, mostly imported from (1891-1896).He was a successful Cleveland architect, many of between 1912 and 1914, and the family lived in the carriage house AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Other (Specify) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) France and England. Gallagher, the longest resident, was general residences on Fairmount Boulevard as the most consistent and regarded him as a successful practitioner, sound in his practice,

The whole case file for this property - 1,484 words, 10 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 73001419, 10 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Burdick, Harold B., House0.3 miles1974
Halle's Shaker Square1.1 miles2005
Strong, Jacob, House1.2 miles2023
Alcazar Hotel1.4 miles1979
East Cleveland District 9 School1.5 miles1979
Commodore Apartment Building1.5 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001419 in Record Group 79.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 338 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.